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...ardent mind, was a full reward for all the miseries he had endured. " Looking forward," he says, " I saw with infinite pleasure the " great object of...glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at West" minster, and flowing slowly to the eastward." Shortly afterwards he reached Sego, the capital...

...excitement with which he set off the following morning. This is his simple record of his great moment. "Looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the...mission; the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering in the morning sun, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drunk...